by Mark Stein
Mark Stein’s poetry has appeared in appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Madison Review, Confrontation, Nimrod, Moment, and elsewhere. He wrote the screenplay for Housesitter, starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, and plays that have been produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, Actors’ Theater of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Manitoba Theatre Centre, George Street Playhouse, L.A.’s Fountain Theatre, and most recently an award-winning production of Direct from Death Row the Scottsboro Boys at Chicago’s Raven Theater. His non-fiction includes the New York Times Best-Seller, How the States Got Their Shapes, which became the basis for the History Channel series by the same name, American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why, and Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present.